Usage of Past Future Continuous Tense
- Past Future Continuous Tense is used to express future actions without definite time limits in the past. (I would be living in Manchester if I got job)
- Past Future Continuous Tense is used to express something that would be continuing at some particular time in the future in action but past in time of speaking. (I should be cooking dinner if my husband went home)
Affirmative
Subject + would/ should + be +Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it would be going to Italy
I/ we should be going to Rome
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Negative
Subject + would/ should + not + be +Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it would not be going to Italy
I/ we should not be going to Rome
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Interrogative
Would/ should + subject + be + Verb-ing
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Would I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it be going to Italy?
Should I/we be going to Rome?
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Negative interrogative
Would/ should + not + subject + be + Verb-ing
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Would not I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my
friend/it be going to Italy?
Should not I/we be going to Rome?
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Notes:
The shorted
form
I would : I’d
You would : You’d
We would : We’d
They would : They’d
He would : He’d
She would : She’d
Would not : Wouldn’t
Should not : Shouldn’t
Past Future
Continuous Tense
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Question
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Short Answer
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Complete
Answer
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Would you be going to Madrid?
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Yes I would
No, I would not
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Yes I would be going to Madrid
No, I would not be going to Madrid
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Would he be going to Madrid?
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Yes he would
No, he would not
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Yes he would be going to Madrid
No, he would not be going to Madrid
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